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Prince & Princess: The chess variant that uses the criterion of succession, where the king or queen are replaced in favor of the prince or the princess, created by Antonio Maravi Oyague. [38] Proteus: A chess variant using dice to represent normal chess pieces, created by Steve Jackson Games. [39] Shako: Played on a 10×10 board.
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Chess on a really big board was created as an outgrowth of Betza's ideas on three-dimensional chess, after he noted that an 8×8×8 board for 3D chess would have 512 spaces, more than any large version of chess that had previously been invented; he then considered two-dimensional very large (or, in his word, "huge") chess games, mainly on the ...
American Defence of the Dutch Defence – 1.d4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nd2 Amsterdam Variation of the Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation – 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f4 Amsterdam Variation of the Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation – 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.Be2 Nc6 8.Qd2
The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. It was created by Hans Bodlaender in 1995. [1] The site is "run by hobbyists for hobbyists" and is "the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants". [2] The site contains a large compilation of games with published rules.
Grand Chess is a large-board chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is played on a 10×10 board , with each side having two additional pawns and two new pieces: the marshal and the cardinal .
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants. [1] Chess players' names are the most common sources of opening names. The name given to an opening is not always that of the first player to adopt it; often an opening is named for the player who was one of the first to popularise it or to publish analysis of it.
Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position of the pieces on the back rank. It was introduced by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1996 to reduce the emphasis on opening preparation and to encourage creativity in play.